A second bid has been launched to turn a Grade II listed building near Coventry Cathedral into student flats.

A planning application was originally submitted to the city council at the start of the year to transform Bayley House, in Bayley Lane, into student accommodation, but was withdrawn.

However the owner of the building, Jas Jaspal, has returned with a second application which would convert the space in to living accommodation for up to 18 students, with en-suite bedrooms and two kitchens.

Heritage experts in the city are against the proposals and want to see buildings such as Bayley House kept exactly as they are.

Bayley House is currently used as a business centre. Parts date back 500 years and it is the last remaining of a row of Tudor cottages.

It was bought by Mr Jaspal in 2004 as an investment opportunity and the Business Centre was opened in 2007.

Mr Jaspal previously said: “It will make quite a quirky accommodation right on the doorstep of Coventry University.

"The university is prospering, developing and growing in a city where everything else is declining.

“It would be good to support this growth as much as we can and capitalise on any growth area in the city.”

Although there are no alterations planned for the outside of the building, Roger Bailey from the city’s Blue Badge Tourist Guide still believes it is vital the plans do not go ahead.

He said: “I think it’s wrong to turn them in to student flats as it is a historical place and is in our heritage quarter.

“I encourage everyone who cares about our heritage to stand up and put their objections to the council.

"This is not about being anti-student, it is because we don’t have much heritage so we need to protect what we do have.”